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“This was really a parameter-driven project,” explains Lukasz Kos, a Toronto-based designer and cofounder of the architecture...

Next month, Chad Ludeman, president of the firm PostGreen, will move into the first completed 100K House, an infill development...

At the symbolic heart of Philadelphia lies John F. Kennedy (JFK) Plaza, more commonly called Love Park after a Robert Indiana...

Botanist Patrick Blanc has been bringing the wilds of the rainforests to Parisian walls for over 30 years, most recently at the...

An exhibit up at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC chronicles the museum's initial conception, and the Canadian, Philip...

As the ill effects of many a mattress become crystal-clear, never before has the saying “You snooze, you lose” held more weight.

Trees, cocktails, Borgnirne—we’re all in this together, cycling in and out of our earthly existence.

With the lightness and imagination of origami and the mathematical exactitude of digital design, architect Murray Legge’s...

Quebec City architect Pierre Thibault has designed three Habitats Légers, or Light Habitats—small structures installed in the...

This “landscaped outdoor room” near Farrar Pond, Massachusetts, uses simple construction to create complex effects.

It could have been a Sheetrock box, but as the house’s most frequently used point of entry, it deserved the same architectural...

While researching innovative ways in which to use concrete, Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi’s light-transmitting concrete...

Tina Roth Eisenberg runs a successful graphic design company but is perhaps better known as the author behind the design centric...

Not all pictures are worth a thousand words.

The refrigerator in your kitchen may be humming a pricey song—to the tune of hundreds of dollars and thousands of kilowatts a...

I posted recently about a great looking spring lecture series at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

If you read Dwell's February 2009 Process section, you saw the inner workings of the Marmol Radziner prefab factory, where they...

While styles, and items in the overhead compartment, may shift, these comely carry-ons will make you feel like a member of the...

Gary Hustwit’s new film Objectified isn’t about women or using sex to sell goods and services, though he’s been asked that...

It’s no secret that we’re suckers for letterpress here at Dwell, and we're delighted to see the new stationery line from...

Whether you want to replace your drizzly dud or indulge in a decadent deluge, these showerheads will wash your ills away.

The first misconception about going solar is that it is expensive.

Most designers, be they graphic or interior, consult their Pantone fan guide when considering hues.

Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors.

Located in a hidden valley on the picturesque Izu Peninsula, a few hours west of Tokyo, the Watanabe Residence, designed by...

Six weeks after moving from a “gorgeous custom house with huge gardens” in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, into an apartment a...

Gerard Kitchener is fond of talking about the weather, especially as it pertains to Waratah Bay in southeastern Victoria,...

Although the University of Colorado Buffaloes football team fell short during bowl season, another dynasty is afoot at the...

After Nomita Joshi-Gupta’s home in New Orleans was damaged in Hurricane Katrina, she set out looking for eco-friendly products...

If not for the dawn appearance of the bear, which came loping toward Maem Slater-Enns and her then six-month-old daughter as they...

When Ulrich Fleischmann approached architect Maki Kuwayama, of Unit A Architecture in Stuttgart, Germany, to design a home and...

Giorgio Baravalle originally had a true home office—a space inside his house in Millbrook, New York, that was meant to be a...

“A strategy of extreme density was required,” says Michael Chen of Normal Projects, who along with partner Kari Anderson handled...

Telecommuting may let you answer email in your underwear, but is the home office all it’s cracked up to be?

When Greg Reitz was ten years old, he was already so worried about the state of the planet that, without prompting from his...

It’s impossible to ignore nature in Big Sur.